Incident #991653
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Jun 1975
Account
Pet ducks making a ruckus about 10.30 p.m., Ronnie Steves looked out and say a misty grey figure moving around in their cage, which was surrounded by a 6-foot heavy chain link fence. He went outside, it was gone, so he checked smaller duck pen on the other side of the house and came within 3 feet of a 6-foot, dark, hairy, apelike creature, stnding watching the ducks. Footprints found, 6 to 8 inches long, with an arch. Michael Corradino, exec. dir. of Florida Monkey Sanctuary, said they wre like chimp tracks but without the thumb-like big toe. They went towards the Myakka River. Two other reports of something similar in the area in the past week. Corradino, a skeptic at this time, saw one late.
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 07 1975
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Sarasota Cty
- Nearest Town
- Venice
- Latitude
- 2706
- Longitude
- 8223
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Child or children
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Nearby Water
- river
Source
- Source
- Ramona Hibner and Sarasota, FL, Herald Tribune, June 9, 1975, and John Green and Dennis Gates interview, quoting Ronny Steves, 12, Box 955A, Jackson Road, Venice, Florida.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Hair Longer on
- arms
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- walked awayýstopped still
- Object Handled
- manmade object
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 7.0
- Tracks Came From
- yard
- Tracks Went to
- water
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at homeýoutside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- under 5 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled